TWiGCP “Eventarc, Cloud SQL Insights, BeyondCorp Enterprise, Dialogflow CX, Cloud DNS policies, and VM Manager”

Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:

• On the road to SRE with Cloud Operations Sandbox
• Designing your data security program in a cloud-native way on Google Cloud
• AppSheet tutorial: no-code fitness app
• Let’s talk about decisions skills! by Cassie Kozyrkov

Other top GCP stories for this past week include one GA release and no less than 5 introductions :

• Eventarc is Generally Available (Google blog)
• Introducing Cloud SQL Insights (Google blog)
• Introducing BeyondCorp Enterprise (Google blog)
• Introducing Dialogflow CX (Google blog)
• Introducing Cloud DNS response policies (Google blog)
• Introducing VM Manager (Google blog)

From the “a bit more about those Cloud SQL announcements” department :

• Boost your query performance troubleshooting skills with Cloud SQL Insights (Google blog)
• Introducing Sqlcommenter: An open source ORM auto-instrumentation library (Google blog)

From the “serverless round-up” department :

• Spoiled for choice: Deploying to 3 serverless platforms (Google blog)
• Lifecycle of a container on Cloud Run (Google blog)
• Call a Workflow from a Function! | by Grant Timmerman (medium.com)
• Richard Seroter on Twitter on Cloud Workflows (twitter.com)

From the “(Big)Data processing” department :

• Get started with data analytics demand forecasting with ML models (Google blog)
• Cache reuse across DoFn’s in Beam | by Prathap Reddy (medium.com)
• Data operation with Cloud Spanner using Mercari Dataflow Template | by Yoichi Nagai (medium.com)
• Pass any Dataflow runner option with Terraform using Flex Templates | Google Cloud — Community (medium.com)
• Creating Dynamic Composer Airflow DAGs from JSON template | Google Cloud — Community (medium.com)
• Setting Up Data Quality Monitoring For Cloud Dataprep Pipelines | by Victor Coustenoble (medium.com)

From the “sharpening your axe” department :

• Using Cloud Build with a multi-stage Docker build file and a private repo | by ghchinoy (medium.com)
• Securing access to Google Service Accounts from Gitlab CI — DEV Community (dev.to)

From the “is Pub/Sub Lite what you need?” department :

• Google Pub/Sub Lite for Kafka Users | by Daniel Collins (medium.com)

From the “a billion objects and a hundred years” department :

• Understanding Cloud Storage 11 9s durability target (Google blog)

From the “logging to compliance” department :

• Request Annotation with Cloud Audit Logging and Monitoring on GCP | by salmaan rashid (medium.com)

From the “detailed networking walk-through” department :

• Memorystore Redis access through VPC peering | by Neil Kolban (medium.com)

From the “customers and partners solving real-world problems with GCP” department :

• How the New York Times build an end-to-end cloud data platform (Google blog)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode 244 — Intel with Rebecca Weekly (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 135 — Siri, Storage and Solutions, with Josh Bernstein (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Video] Looker in a minute (youtube.com)
• [Video] Introducing Migrate for Anthos (youtube.com)
• [Video] Introducing Cloud SQL Insights (youtube.com)
• [Video] Three alternatives for running your web app serverlessly (youtube.com)

From the “Preview, GA, or what?” department :

• [GA] Cloud SDK 325.0.0
• [GA] Cloud SQL Query Insights
• [GA] Cloud Logging increased write API call limit
• [GA] BigQuery Clustered tables support for DATETIME
• [GA] Speech-to-Text multi-region endpoints
• [Preview] Network Connectivity Center
• [Preview] Cloud Workflows Connectors
• [Preview] Secret Manager Expiration
• [Preview] AI Platform Training use of A100 GPUs and A2 machines
• [M62] AI Platform Deep Learning Containers and Python 2 deprecation

This week’s picture is the newly-promoted-to-GA Eventarc logo

That is all for this week!
-Alexis